Eating too much salt led to 2.3 million heart-related deaths worldwide in 2010

Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 21:00 in Health & Medicine

Excessive sodium (salt) consumption caused 2.3 million heart-related deaths in the world in 2010. Nearly 1 million of these deaths occurred in people 69 years and younger.

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